Opinion

I'm not going to lie here: I'm really pretty disappointed with the rewards on offer for Granblue Fantasy's anniversary event. An event summon that functionally...

Torchlight is up there with my most favorite franchises of all time. The existing multiplayer ARPGs are just pure fun, with bubbly colorful graphics...

The news dropped recently that EVE Online will be adding some new limitations and restrictions to its free-to-play tier, which may seem odd to...

I can't say that Eldevin has ever risen very high on my MMO radar, but over the past year or so I've noticed that...

It's not hard to play Final Fantasy XI or Guild Wars at this point. Both titles are in maintenance mode, yes; they've gotten their last major...

Out of all of Lord of the Rings Online's additional features that it has added post-launch, skirmishes have my vote as one of the...

I know that I'm not the first or the last person to accuse modern MMOs of being far to combat-centric in their design, but...

Remember earlier this week when I was talking about the difference between leveling as a part of the game vs. leveling as a chore?...

Fallout 76's dev blog a few weeks ago about its upcoming brewing and distilling skills - which are actually surprisingly detailed - got me...

Back in February, the MMORPG subreddit offered up yet another fun thread: User Friendly_Fire told the MMO community that what it really wants is...

When I first pitched the Vague Patch Notes that ran a couple weeks back, it prompted a big long discussion with MOP's editor Bree...

Because I am old I still remember the halcyon days when the original Guild Wars shocked the world with its plan to serve as a...

In another reality where our passion for MMORPGs is matched only by the power of nostalgia for the greatest era of cartoons, we would...

Ooh Justin, them's fightin' words! We don't often have the luxury of seeing two full-fledged MMORPGs handle the same intellectual property, especially in vastly different...

Justin and Bree discuss Funcom's Dune, Anarchy Online's prog, Elder Scrolls Online's Wrathstone, Atlas' wipe, Guild Wars 2's layoffs, DDO's Sharn expansion, and Outlaws of the Old West, with adventures in Eldevin, LOTRO, Paragon Chat, Trove, and SWG; a mailbag question on finding laid-back MMOs; and a sponsored segment on Black Desert.

Last week, a friend of mine made an offhand comment about how much something dear to her cost, joking that it wouldn't seem like...

It's a testament to how well the balancing on Final Fantasy XIV works that none of the jobs discussed this week or last week are...

I've never been a console-first kind of gamer, so I've never felt a great pull to invest heavily in consoles, even when more major...

If you like BioWare, high tech eye candy, blowing crap up, or riding the current wave of Hot New Game Releases, chances are that...

The big thing these days is Apex Legends, which is the sudden success story to mirror Fortnite's overnight success, which itself mirrored the overnight...